The medical records of 967 patients treated with a modified neck dissection were carefully
reviewed, and the data were collected and statistically analyzed. For a primary tumor in the …

A retrospective study was conducted to give surgeons direction in deciding which type of
modified neck dissection is proper elective treatment for the patient with a clinically negative …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of selective neck
dissection (SND) in elective and therapeutic treatment of the neck. METHODS: A …

A group of 179 patients who had 205 neck dissections between 1979 and 1984 has been
reviewed to assess the influence of adjuvant radiotherapy on survival. Lymph nodes were …

Background Surgeons have been using selective neck dissections in the treatment of
squamous carcinoma of the upper aerodigestive tract for over 20 years. To date, no data is …

• The effectiveness of elective en bloc, therapeutic en bloc, and secondary radical neck
dissections is evaluated in patients whose primary tumor remained controlled following …

Elective supraomohyoid neck dissection is considered part of standard treatment of oral and
oropharyngeal cancer in most institutions, but its role in the treatment of clinically positive …

During a recent 5-year period, 115 patients had 131 supraomohyoid neck dissections.
Eighty-one percent of these procedures were performed for squamous carcinoma. Seventy …

The anatomical grounds of and surgical technique for functional neck dissection are
described in detail in order to demonstrate that the radicalism of this procedure, from the …

• The emergence of the multitude of modified techniques for neck dissection procedure has
resulted in a nomenclature system that is nonuniform. To eliminate potential …